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Title: Musick
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: In praise of music as the greatest expression of human and heavenly happiness
Title: Musick
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the beneficial effects of music on human emotions
Title: Musick
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, welcoming the
power of music to gladden and soothe a soul troubled by grief and cares, but
finding its effects short-lived
Title: On musick
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: In praise of the heavenly beauty of music
Title: Of Musick
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16--?
Manuscript: Lt 114
Contents: In praise of God's music
Title: On a dish of musick
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Witty comparison of music with food
Title: Musicks empire
Author: Marvell, Andrew
Attribution: Marvell Misc. Po. p.47
Date(s): 164- or 165-
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Metaphorical account of the growth and development of music in the
world
Title: A song made for a musick club in two voyces
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Song in dialogue for a music club, in which enthusiasm for the
beauty of the singing is countered by scepticism about its
likely reception at court. Followed, as chorus, by a drinking song.
Title: Cantata ["set to musick by Dr Green", crossed through]
Author: Hoadly, John
Attribution: ["Mr J.", crossed through] Hoadly
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Pastoral love cantata, divided into airs and recitatives, in which a
shepherdess learns the truth about her unfaithful lover and accepts instead a
devoted admirer; in dialogue form.
Title: An ode on his majesty's birthday 1729 set to musick [Ode to the king
(index)]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1729 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Extravagant panegyric on George II on his birthday, including praise of his
military exploits and of Queen Caroline. Musical ode or cantata, with airs,
recitatives and chorus marked. Apparently of Irish origin.
Title: Ode to be performed at the Rotunda January 1771 for the relief of the
distressed tradesmen of the City of Dublin. The words by Henry Brooke Junior,
the musick by Signor Passerini.
Author: Brooke, Henry; Junior
Attribution: Henry Brooke Junior
Date(s): 1771 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 89
Contents: Appeal to the wealthy of Dublin to relieve the sufferings of the poor, in the
form of a quasi-dramatic dialogue, to music, between Hibernia, Want, Power and
Charity, divided variously into chorus, air, recitative, and quartetto
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On music's close relationship to poetry, implied by the 'muse' in its name; translated from preceding Latin lines of Asclepiad